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...following poem, composed under the fostering influence of these easy rules, will amply set forth the beauties of the new school...
This is admirable in its metaphorical directness, its passionate simplicity; it is a poem quite out of the common order. Many persons, had they written such glowing words, would feel that their life-work was accomplished. The beauty of the new school lies in its originality and its mystery; for the primary object of the poet should be any thing but clearness. Here now is another species of poem, very justly popular. This indicates the highest stage of progress in the art, and may well be introduced at the conclusion of this humble sketch...
...appeared. It is a model of typographical excellence and care, in which respect we know of no other American magazine, excepting, perhaps, Scribner's, that equals it. The articles this time are unusually interesting, comprising a paper on Phillips Exeter Academy, by C. G. Kidder; The Agricultural School as a Preparation for the Study of Medicine, by Professor F. H. Storer; another batch of General Oliver's Reminiscences; essays by Professors Trowbridge and Shaler, and several other contributions. The Class of 1830, by G. W. Warren, is a pleasing record of a class which produced Sumner. 39,000 copies...
...different ways. If you should ask me how you show yours, I might tell you that you have an abnormal leaning - towards certain mad tendencies. You crook out your elbows; you part your hair in the middle; you brush it down flat upon your temples (such foolishness as school-girls only used to be capable of); you never by any chance confess an interest in anything except tennis and Germans. Indifference, I believe you call it. But goodness preserve me from such a disposition! it is but a form of insanity which would in the end bring us back...
...sweet, laughing voice: "Why, certainly; you know, do you not, that I am of the Aristippean school, and my motto is '???,' that is, 'I smite, but am not smitten...